versions of the Alexander Romance have Alexander the Great encounter the river on his travels. In modern literature, the Sambation appears prominently in Umberto Eco's novel Baudolino, whose protagonists manage to cross the raging river of stones and find on the other side, not the Lost Ten Tribes, but the Kingdom of Prester John of Christian myth. In 1929 Lazar Borodulin published the only Yiddish science fiction novel, (On the other side of the Sambation, a scientific and fantastic novel), a novel in the "lost world" genre, written in a Jewish perspective. In the novel a journalist meets a mad scientist with a ray gun in the land of the Red Jews. See also Ramlat al-Sab'atayn References Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz on locating the Sambation: אהרן יהודה ליב שטיינמן: אילת השחר: דברים נצבים ל:ג Notes External links PBS: The Lost Tribes Sambation from the Jewish Encyclopedia "אילת השחר דברים - שטיינמן, אהרן יהודה לייב" (page 192 of 244) Medieval legends Ten Lost Tribes Mythological rivers Jewish folklore Jewish mythology