Isabella Tree
Isabella Tree | |
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| Born | 1964 (age 61–62) |
| Education | University of London |
| Occupations | Conservationist, writer |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Edward Cavendish (grandfather) Mary Gascoyne-Cecil (grandmother) Ronald Tree (grandfather) Nancy Lancaster (grandmother) |
| Website | isabellatree |
Isabella Tree, Lady Burrell (born 1964)[1] is a British author and conservationist. She is author of the Richard Jefferies Society Literature Award-winning book Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm that describes the creation of Knepp Wildland, the first large-scale rewilding project in lowland England. The 3,500-acre (1,400-hectare) wildland project was created in the grounds of Knepp Castle, the ancestral home of her husband, Sir Charles Burrell, a landowner and conservationist.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Tree attended Millfield School.[2] She was adopted by an aristocratic British family as a baby. She read Classics, following the advice of author Iris Murdoch and went to the University of London.[3]
From 1993 to 1995, Tree was a travel correspondent at the Evening Standard.[4] In 1999 she was Overall Winner of the Travelex Travel Writers' Awards for a feature on Nepal's Kumaris, or "Living Goddesses" – "High and Mighty" – for the Sunday Times.[5] She has written articles for The Guardian[6] and National Geographic Magazine.[7]
Tree is married to Sir Charles Burrell and lives at Knepp Castle in West Sussex.[8]
Books
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Awards
[edit | edit source]- 1996: Shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (Islands in the Clouds)[9]
- 1999: Overall winner of the Travelex Travel Writer Awards[9][10]
- 2018: Richard Jefferies Society Literature Award (Wilding)[11]
- 2018: One of the top ten science books – Smithsonian Magazine (Wilding) [12]
- 2019: Shortlisted for Wainwright Prize (Wilding)[13]
- 2020: Awarded the CIEEM (Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management) Medal[14]
- 2021: Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award[15]
- 2023: Zoological Society of London Silver Medal (Wilding)[16]
- 2024: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Sussex[17]
See also
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External links
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