This article introduces inland waterway guidebooks as cultural objects that deserve further attention from cultural geographers who have begun to shed light on inland waterway cultures in recent years. It contributes to the wider disciplines long-standing interests in representations and representational objects, and more recently the interest in studying representations and their relations to everyday forms of practice. Focusing on a popular series of waterway guide, the Collins/Nicholson Waterways guides, I employ textual and visual analysis alongside an autoethnographic account of using these guides to examine what waterway guidebooks are, how they represent waterway spaces and how they are used in the practices of wayfinding on a narrowboat. By doing so I argue that waterway guides are powerful objects of representation that can tell us much about how waterway spaces are represented and how they are experienced with a guide in hand from the perspective of boat users. In laying out these arguments, I build on the notion of the travelling landscape-object to develop a theory of cruising landscape-objects, which I define as waterway guides that both represent, (re)produce and circulate waterway spaces at the same time as they are representational and material objects that can co-constitute wayfinding practices on the water.

本文介绍了内陆水道指南，将其作为文化对象，值得近年来逐渐开始阐明内陆水道文化的文化地理学家进一步关注。它促进了更广泛的学科对表示和表示对象的长期兴趣，最近又对研究表示及其与日常实践形式的关系感兴趣。我着眼于一系列受欢迎的水道指南《柯林斯/尼科尔森水道指南》，我通过文字和视觉分析以及自动民族志说明，使用这些指南来检查什么是水道指南，它们如何代表水道空间以及如何在实践中使用它们。一艘窄船上寻路的过程。通过这样做，我认为水路指南是强大的表示对象，它可以告诉我们很多有关如何表示水路空间以及如何从船民的角度掌握指南的经验。在阐述这些论点时，我基于旅行景观物体以发展巡航景观物体的理论，我将其定义为水道指南，它们既代表，（再现）生产和循环水道空间，又是代表物和物质对象，可以共同构成寻路实践在水上。