Hey there,
I guess with tangible you mean that from the illustrations of the tracks you can visualize them and get a feeling for how they are shaped as a whole, which is something you can't get from just playing the game? I've got this guide book laying around: Link
This is NOT my auction, but you can see the pictures. Every track gets about 8 pages worth of details and strats, and also each track gets one overall 3D view (big) on it coupled with smaller images called bird's view (9 different images) and side view (7 different images) but those are a little hard to make out as they are printed as 1 inch squares or so.
I've bought this book to get the staff interview near the end of the book translated into english but don't need it anymore now. I just randomly found it again and had read your post just half an hour before that. If you want i'll give it to you for free.