Download or read book Beach Crossings written by Greg Dening and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed historian/anthropologist Greg Dening revisits the bloody history of the Marquesas and other islands in Oceania to craft an extended essay on human change and transition. Beach Crossings is part memoir, part history, and part imaginative exploration of the symbolic meeting of land and ocean.