Isabella Tree


Isabella Tree is a British author and travel journalist.

Personal life

She married Sir Charles Burrell, settled in Knepp Castle in West Sussex, and continued to travel, writing books about Papua New Guinea, Mexico and Nepal.

Career

Tree was, from 1993 to 1995, a travel correspondent at the Evening Standard, which she considers to be the big break in her career. She has written five books of nonfiction, which have received praise. Islands in the Clouds: Travels in the Highlands of New Guinea was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. She writes for the Sunday Times, Evening Standard, Observer, History Today and Conde Nast Traveller and her work has also appeared in Reader's Digest Today's Best Non-Fiction, Rough Guides Women Travel and The Best American Travel Writing. 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.
Her book, The Living Goddess, is also about the Kumaris, a prepubescent girl worshipped in Nepal and replaced before she menstruates. It has received considerable international interest.
Her 2018 book Wilding - the return of nature to a British farm tells the story of the Knepp Wildland Project, the rewilding experiment on Knepp Estate. Wilding was shortlisted for the 2019 Wainwright Prize.

Books