    This excerpt has been taken from a work of travel
literature. Readers are invited to tell us: a) where is the
action taking place? b) who is the author? Blackwell's Bookshops
will award pounds 30-worth of book tokens to the first correct
answer out of the hat. Answers on a postcard to: Literally Lost,
Independent on Sunday, 1 Canada Square, London E14 5DL. Usual
competition rules apply. Entries to arrive by this Thursday.
Literally lost 78: The book was 'Bad Land' by Jonathan Raban.
The action took place in Montana. The winner is Amanda Lewis
from Somerset.  The dogs adapted to the snow like young bears,
plunging into the drifts to emerge with white whiskers and
bucking their way across the fields in huge, frothy leaps. And
they learned to skate. The pool, that just days before I had
been planning to clean and make ready for some early spring
swimming, was a block of blue-green ice, and it seemed to
fascinate them. On to the ice would go the two front paws, then
a tentative third paw, and finally the rema